Do you live with realities that shock, delight, implore you? Do you have expertise, confusions, curiosities, appreciations, denunciations that you want to share in a way that others can hear? In this 6-week class we will look at essays by notable, published essayists to see how their use of persona narrator and other elements of craft help them both to live into their material and to welcome the reader.

Class Structure & Details

•Format: Weekly, unrecorded live classes via Zoom

•What to Expect: Week to week, we will discuss techniques used in a range of essay models, share our work, offer supportive feedback, and introduce the upcoming week’s exercise.

•Who Can Join: All are welcome! This class is open to new, current, and returning Writers Studio students.

📌 Note: Our Zoom sessions are highly interactive and designed to be a safe space for sharing fresh work, so they are not recorded.

Instructor

Writers Studio Teacher

Gail Ford

Gail, a graduate of Stanford, teaches poetry, fiction, essays, Art Speaks to Art, and CD Wright’s hybrid writing. Gail loves thinking, talking, and laughing with writers about writing, and welcomes all to “try this, try that” as a playful means to both deepen access to our material and engage the reader. Her work has appeared in the NOYO River Review, Carquinez Review, Minotaur, and Northern Contours and has been anthologized in An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind, and A Ghost at Heart's Edge, Stories and Poems of Adoption.

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